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AFP eWire October 2, 2012 Britt Brouse |
The Obama Effect: 20 Takeaways for Multichannel Fundraisers As much as fortuitous circumstances abetted its efforts, the Obama for America campaign put to use every best practice of online marketing and brought the power of online fundraising to the forefront of everyone's mind. |
AFP eWire May 13, 2014 |
Four Current Annual Giving Trends and How to Incorporate Them into a Fundraising Plan Just as every spring brings with it the promise of renewal and the start of a new fiscal year, it can also inspire renewed annual giving programs. |
AFP eWire July 31, 2013 Mike Snusz |
Three Pieces to an Engaging Email Campaign Nonprofit email campaigns can learn from what the corporate world is doing. Corporate email programs have focused on delivering value -- they test offers, messaging and more. |
AFP eWire May 5, 2008 |
Don't Make Email Open Rates Your Canary in the Coal Mine Email tracking indicators may be casting a deceivingly dark shadow on your email campaign. |
AFP eWire January 10, 2012 |
Key Trends for the Nonprofit Sector in 2012 The biggest impact on the nonprofit sector in 2012 will be the maturation of social media and mobile giving, a greater role for peer-to-peer engagement, and a move toward donors dictating the terms of interactions. |
AFP eWire July 21, 2008 |
'Isn't Email Just Like Regular Direct Mail--But on Steroids?' A cool $10 billion or so is now being raised annually online. But what is the truth about email? |
AFP eWire December 6, 2004 |
Email Solicitations Still Evolving in Higher Education Only half of higher education institutions are using email as a fundraising tool, and there is a wide disparity in how the technology is being employed, according to a new survey by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). |
AFP eWire December 15, 2009 |
Despite Economy More Consumers Plan to Give Online in '09 than '08 Convio Inc. estimates that U.S. online giving to nonprofit organization will be more than $4 billion during the holiday season of 2009 as increasing numbers of people donate to charities via the web. |
CRM August 3, 2012 Carrie Scott |
Reinvigorate Email Marketing Marketers need to focus on new methods of engagement to combat declining ROIs and deliverability. |
AFP eWire January 17, 2006 Geoff Peters |
Best Practices in Direct Mail Fundraising, Part II Direct response is both art and science, and as such, trends and hot ideas tend to flood the marketplace suddenly, and then recede just as quickly. |
AFP eWire June 23, 2008 |
Direct Mail Alive and Well--For Now Whether future generations will respond equally well to direct mail as they get older is yet to be determined. |
CRM November 16, 2010 Juan Martinez |
84 Percent of Digital Marketers Use Social Media Direct marketing is now more about getting heard and having people listen than it is about reach. |
AFP eWire November 30, 2010 |
High Hopes for Holiday Giving Convio estimates that U.S. giving during the 2010 holiday season to nonprofit organizations will be more than $48 billion across all giving channels |
AFP eWire September 18, 2012 |
Finding the Right Date for Year-End and Holiday Appeals An AFP member asked on the open forums about when it might be too late to send a year-end, holiday direct mail appeal. Here are some of the responses and insights provided by members. |
Entrepreneur August 2007 Kim T. Gordon |
A Guide to Effective Mailings Are you getting the most out of your direct-mail campaign? Follow this advice and post record returns on your efforts. |
AFP eWire May 10, 2011 |
More People Donating Online, Say Fundraising Costs a Key Concern A new study shows that more donors from every age group are going online to make a donation, and they are increasingly sensitive to over-solicitation and fundraising costs. |
AFP eWire June 23, 2008 |
Best of Both Worlds: Tips for Online-Offline Marketing Integration -- breaking down the silos between fundraising channels and leveraging the strengths of each -- is the key to future success, according to the new book People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities. |
CRM May 2006 Carol Ellison |
8 Email Marketing Tips Experts provide commonsense advice about one of the most powerful and yet one of the most dangerous mediums of communication -- Email. |
AFP eWire March 23, 2009 David Hughes |
eWire Reader Response: One Way Obama's Tech Strategist Missed the Mark President Barack Obama's chief technology strategist, Thomas Gensemer, dropped a bomb on nonprofit marketers and fundraisers in February with this: "Charity email newsletters are a waste of time" |
AFP eWire April 15, 2014 |
How To Get Big Donations -- Through Your iPhone! Philip King of Cornerstone Group of Companies talks to us about big mobile donations and how integrating fundraising channels is a key step in getting more donations! |
CRM December 14, 2015 Sam Del Rowe |
GI Insight Study Finds Omnichannel Approaches Are Falling Short Research indicates that though consumers use multiple channels in their shopping journeys, companies are not successfully implementing omnichannel marketing strategies. |
AFP eWire October 19, 2010 |
Study Shows Direct Mail is a More Important Driver to Online Giving than Online Communications More than twice as many online donors say they were prompted to give an online gift in response to a direct mail appeal compared to when they received an e-appeal. |
AFP eWire September 17, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: Top Ten: 5 Quick Ways to Humanize your Email Marketing (Sept. 17, 2013) Fundraising Strategy/Approach: Make fundraising a team sport... Donors: Creating More Donor-Centered Thank You Letters... Fundraising Research: Rocking the case study... |
AFP eWire September 19, 2005 Geoff Peters |
Best Practices in Direct Mail Fundraising Direct response is both art and science for charities, and as such, trends and hot ideas tend to flood the marketplace suddenly and then recede just as quickly. |
AFP eWire October 16, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: Shutdown Brings Combined Federal Campaign to a Standstill (Oct. 16, 2013) Donors: Wealthy Donors Don't Get Giving Advice They Want... Government Relations: Shutdown brings Combined Federal Campaign to a standstill... Year-end Appeals: 6 Ways to Raise More Money with your Annual Fundraising Appeal... |
AFP eWire September 3, 2013 |
Top Ten Things: Top 5 Fundraising Ideas from The Next Generation of American Giving (Sept. 3, 2013) Donors: Focusing on Donors, Not the Charity, in Your Appeals... Direct Mail: Read This Before You Mail Another Postcard... Younger Donors/Gen Y/Millennials: Top 5 Fundraising Ideas from The Next Generation... |
CRM June 22, 2011 |
VerticalResponse Launches New Social Media Tools to Extend Email Marketing Campaigns VerticalResponse, a provider of self-service email marketing software, online survey, and direct mail marketing solutions for small businesses, today debuted its next-generation social sharing tools that provide deeper integration between email marketing and social media. |
CRM June 10, 2011 Leonard Klie |
New Research Highlights the Need for Integrated Marketing Email is still the most effective way of reaching customers, but campaigns should also include the Web, SMS, social media, and other channels. |
CRM December 11, 2010 Gib Bassett |
The Marriage of Mobile and Multichannel Marketing Mobile's central role in the coming cross-channel revolution. |
AFP eWire October 6, 2008 |
Direct Mail: Paying For Your Undeliverable Mail Nonprofits that are not aware of the new rules may find themselves paying first class rates on their standard mail (nonprofit discounted rate) mailings. |
CRM January 20, 2012 Kara Trivunovic |
Email Marketing and Social Data: The Beginning of a Beautiful CRM Friendship Employ an integrated strategy to drive more successful campaigns. |
AFP eWire April 14, 2008 |
Online Fundraising In 2008: Can We Blink Yet? While fundraising over the Internet still represents less than 4 percent of total funds raised, the rate has increased 50-fold over the last 10 years. |
AFP eWire November 13, 2013 |
Top Ten: How Nonprofits Are Blowing It With Their Future Source of Revenue (November 13, 2013) Email: How to Craft Donation Appeal Emails That Always Convert... Donors: 6 Ways to Raise More Money without New Donors!... Year-end Fundraising: Who's Asking During Your Year-end Appeal?... |
AFP eWire September 19, 2005 |
Direct Response in the Time of Katrina, Public Scrutiny With the impact of Hurricane Katrina, increasing amounts of mail and diminished public trust of the charitable sector, direct-response fundraising faces more challenges than ever before. |
AFP eWire December 1, 2008 |
Reminder: New Postal Service Mailing List Requirements in Effect As of Nov. 23, the United States Postal Service now requires address lists for standard mail to be cleared of incorrect addresses every 95 days, rather than every 185 days as previously required. |
CRM September 2012 Judith Aquino |
Avoid the Spam Folder How marketers can save outbound emails from the dreaded fate. |
AFP eWire January 12, 2009 Chip Grizzard |
Industry Outlooks: The New Fundraising Paradigm If you want to survive and thrive, budget for innovation to find what motivates this new generation of donor to support your organization. |
CRM October 2, 2015 Leonard Klie |
Email Marketing Needs to Keep Up with Mobile Vendors must keep up with an evolving and challenging market by offering refined new solutions and techniques for small businesses. |
Bank Technology News January 2007 Hakan Akbas |
Want a Good Response Rate? Better Get Personal. Push marketing drives customers away. Personalized, customized marketing pulls them in with products and services that meet their needs. |
AFP eWire January 17, 2006 |
Covering the Basics: A Direct Mail Primer Here are tips that can help you maximize your return when fundraising and marketing. |
CRM April 11, 2014 Craig Fitzgerald |
The 3 Levels of Follow-Up Email remains the top engagement channel, but using it correctly is key. |
New Architect August 2002 Bret A. Fausett |
Blind Vigilantes Blackhole lists offer dark prospects for those unfairly judged to be spammers. |
New Architect August 2002 Lincoln D. Stein |
A Tidal Wave Of Spam Why rail against the machine when you can go with the flow? |
AFP eWire August 11, 2009 |
A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste As a result of the tough economic climate, many organizations are drastically cutting back their fundraising programs. |
Entrepreneur June 2005 Kim T. Gordon |
Stamp of Approval Looking for a marketing campaign that will get your name in front of new customers? Direct mail takes you right to their mailboxes. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2008 Deena Katz |
Reining in Email There is probably nothing more problematic in our professional lives today than our ability to use and abuse email. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2008 Dave Ormesher |
The Self-Fueling Marketing Machine Creating a self-fueling machine that produces data - which steers the marketing channel and in turn produces more data - represents the necessary evolution for the survival of pharmaceutical e-marketing. |
InternetNews November 15, 2010 |
Facebook Messages, the Next Step Beyond Email? Facebook unwraps a new system for collecting online communications in one unified format. |
CRM October 5, 2012 Kyle Lacy |
The Future of Marketing Strategy Embracing the cross-channel approach is the only option. |
CRM October 2005 Jim Dickie |
Direct Marketing Trends for 2006 More companies are turning to the Web for targeted marketing efforts. |